linux-kernel - Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro toalinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning

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Message-ID: <20080805233743.GK28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:37:43 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@...com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	malware-list@...ts.printk.net,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro
	toalinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:26:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:12:34PM -0400, Press, Jonathan wrote:
> > Sorry for the top-post... but I give up.
> >  
> > I don't think I'm stupid, but frankly I don't understand the point of
> > the questions being asked in the last three responses to my statement.
> > I don't know why they are relevant, and I don't know how to answer
> > them in a framework that we can all understand at the same time.

Excuse me?  One of those questions had been a very specific yes-or-no one
and I certainly hope that we all can understand either answer to such...

For the record, the question is

"Do you or do you not expect the malware to be active on scanning host?"

I hope that relevance of that to the analysis of software involved in
scanning should be obvious.
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